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autobiographicalize

autobiographicalize verb: to convert into an autobiography.

Verb

autobiographicalize (third-person singular simple present autobiographicalizes, present participle autobiographicalizing, simple past and past participle autobiographicalized)

  1. (transitive) To convert into an autobiography.
    • ... on the other hand, they were encouraged to autobiographicalize traditional fictive forms, as Dickinson did when she turned hymns into monodramas. These crossings between autobiography and the fictive were regulated by the strong[…]1991, Paul John Eakin, American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 50
    • It is to speak of a little boy lost but searching, for a father, for direction, for justice, for peace. To tell his story in connection with brothers of the past is to autobiographicalize our current generation.1997, Michael Datcher, Kwame Alexander, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations, Kwame Alexander
    Synonyms:
    autobiographize

Synonyms of autobiographicalize

Forms of autobiographicalize

third-person singular presentautobiographicalizes
present participleautobiographicalizing
past participleautobiographicalized
pastautobiographicalized

Origin of autobiographicalize

From autobiographical + -ize.

Questions about autobiographicalize

What does autobiographicalize mean?
Autobiographicalize means to convert into an autobiography.
What part of speech is autobiographicalize?
Autobiographicalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of autobiographicalize?
The past tense of autobiographicalize is autobiographicalized.

Words near autobiographicalize in the dictionary

  1. autobiographers
  2. autobiographic
  3. autobiographical
  4. autobiographical number
  5. autobiographical numbers
  6. autobiographicalize
  7. autobiographicalized
  8. autobiographicalizes
  9. autobiographicalizing
  10. autobiographically
  11. autobiographicalness

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